Posted on 02/01/2003 3:07:19 PM PST by TLBSHOW
Did anyone hear Fox TV report that an AP reporter added a smear in a profile of the crew?
This was between 12:30 and 1:00 I believe.
The Fox person apologized and slammed AP writer.
Did anyone hear this besides me? What is AP thinking besides their normal hate selves.
But the apology was obviously genuine and he was clearly feeling a little stupid about having read the report live, without knowing what was in it.
He went a long way toward making me finally respect him.
I know how you feel. I felt the same. I suspect the FOX News switchboard lit up like a Christmas tree after his comments. An apology was in order but the slip-up from Shepard Smith seemed sloppy for him.
Nah, not today. Like I said, I've seen him reading live before and stop mid-report and not complete the sentence because he thought it was inappropriate. Not sure where he left his head this a.m. The apology should have been immediate. My guess is it came following a flood of complaints. fwiw, I think he would like to take it back but I would have liked to have seen an immediate apology. You know, recognition that what he just said was completely out of line. I knew it. So did a lot of other good folks. An immediate apology would have appeared more genuine to me rather than later.
Are you saying Shepard Smith came in later and apologized but blamed the AP for his faux pas?
sheesh....
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030201/ap_wo_en_po/na_gen_us_shuttle_astronaut_thumbnails_3
Six Americans, one Israeli aboard space shuttle Columbia
Sat Feb 1,11:47 AM ETBy The Associated Press
A brief look at the six Americans and Israel's first astronaut aboard space shuttle Columbia:
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Commander Rick Husband, 45, Air Force colonel from Amarillo, Texas. The former test pilot was selected as an astronaut in 1994 on his fourth try. He made up his mind as a child that that was what he was going to do with his life.
"It's been pretty much a lifelong dream and just a thrill to be able to get to actually live it out," he said in an interview before Columbia's launch, his second spaceflight.
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Pilot William McCool, 41, Navy commander from Lubbock, Texas, and father of three sons. He graduated second in his 1983 class at the Naval Academy, went on to test pilot school and became an astronaut in 1996. This was his first spaceflight.
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Payload commander Michael Anderson, 43, the son of an Air Force man who grew up on military bases. He was flying for the Air Force when NASA (news - web sites) chose him in 1994 as one of only a handful of black astronauts. He traveled to Russia's Mir space station (news - web sites) in 1998. The lieutenant colonel was in charge of Columbia's dozens of science experiments. His home is in Spokane, Washington.
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Kalpana Chawla, 41, emigrated to United States from India in 1980s and became an astronaut in 1994. On only other spaceflight, in 1997, she made mistakes that sent science satellite tumbling out of control. Other astronauts had to go on spacewalk to capture it.
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David Brown, 46, a Navy captain, pilot and doctor. He joined the Navy after a medical internship, went on to fly the A-6E Intruder and F-18. He became an astronaut in 1996. Columbia's mission was his first spaceflight.
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Laurel Clark, 41, a Navy diving medical officer aboard submarines, then flight surgeon who became an astronaut in 1996. On board Columbia to help with science experiments. Has 8-year-old son. Her home is in Racine, Wisconsin.
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Ilan Ramon, 48, a colonel in Israel's air force and the first Israeli in space. His mother and grandmother survived Auschwitz death camp. Father fought for Israel's statehood alongside grandfather. Ramon fought in the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the Lebanon War in 1982.
He served as a fighter pilot 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, flew F-16s and F-4s. He was chosen as Israel's first astronaut in 1997, then moved to Houston the next year to train for shuttle flight. His wife and four children live in Tel Aviv.
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On the Net:
NASA: http:/www.jsc.nasa.gov/bios
Don't blame you, I think you will find better coverage on ABC with Pete Jennings. In fact, I think you will find all around greater unbiased coverage there also. Jennings is numero uno in my book and yours too I suspect.......
I know we say it often, but it bears repeating: we don't like seeing our fellow human beings attacked. True conservatives aren't racist, sexist, or otherwise bigoted.
I'll go out on a limb here and say that I bet Kalpana Chawla doesn't fit the "conservative" profile. Yet, here we are standing in defense of a woman we don't know anything about, but we know she isn't around to defend herself. And I find that admirable.
I'm not saying we're perfect: we have a lot to learn, and a long way to go--but I'm proud of all the FREEPers who stand up for those who can no longer stand for themselves. God bless you.
Keep doing that everyday for the helpless in your family, church and community.
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